The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-02-02
A BIG CLUB OF RICH MEN.
ONLY ELEVEN OF TIE SENATOR'S ARE;
1IiLLI0NAIEES.

ONLY ELEVEN OF TIE SENATOR'S ARE
MlLLI0N.aIEES.
q: that aIucI. Abused Body--oloaey Bags
Wei! Filled.
WASHINGTON, January 29.-Whenever
hear anybody talking about the United
States Senate as a ''club Of millionaires"
I feel like saying, as Senator Joe Brown
sad to tie newspaper man who asked
him L he were worth so, GOO, ,000.-
Young man 81, 900, coo is !; great deal
Of money Tie truth is there are very
few n.;ilionaireS IN The Senate. l have
just gone carefully over the list, and out
OF tie so,en;y y-six 7 can only find eleven
milion2;res, and DO not feel very GER
tain about al Of them. Oh course one
can never feel sure about the wealth of
any rlan in America-except that it is
exaggerated by popular report. But
here is my LIST: Brown, Of Georgia;
Camden, OF West Virginia; Cameron, Of
Pennsylvania; Fair, OF Nevada; Hale, of
Maine; Malone, of Virginia; Palmer, Of
Michigan; Payne, Of Ohio; Sawyer, of
Wisconsin; Sherman, Of Ohio, and
Stanford, OF California.
STAFFORD AT TIE TOP Or TIE HEAT.
OF these Stanford IS by far The richest.
lis wealth is largely I'm sight" and may
be safely put, l suppose, at sc, ,000,0 900,
chiefly made and chiefly kept in rail
reads and real estate. But Stanford can
well be reckoned in the. Dangerous
classes" Next, should say, stands
Fair, and Fair, Flood, Mackey and
O'Brien whose wealth was and largely is
speculative, but Who is rated at about
SO, 100000 by well informed men. Then
comes OLD Joe Brown, Of Georgia, with
his railroads and real estate and his coal
mines, valued by experts at S5,000,0 600.
Payne, Of Ohio, with his real estate and
Oil; Cameron, OF Pennsylvania, and
Camden, OF West Virginia, with their
railroads and real estate, are milionaires.
TOWARD TEE END OF TEE LIS:c.
Palmer, OF Michigan, and Sawyer, of
Wisconsin, with their lumber and their
real estate, come next, and then as the |
file closcrs l would rank Sherman, with |
MS real estate, Malone, with his specu-
lative railway stocks, and Hale, With his
wife's fortune II the rear. I do not feel
sure that Malone IS entitled to g place
n the list OF milIonaires, although he
lives ike one; bat I feel sure chat Jones,
OF Nevada, cannot read his title clear to
/. corner il this club, in spite of the
newspaper stories about his success in
the recent speculations il the Ccmstock
stocks. But grant for the time that he
IS /. millionaire, that will give US just a
round dozen II the Senate. Surely We
cal stand that.
RICH, But NOT AIILLIONAIRES.
But shall be told that many Of the
other sixty-four are rich men, if not
actually millionaires, and that they
ought 10 be reckoned in, in trial of the
quo warranto which has been served
upon ''the money bags OF the Senate.
Very we'll. Let us run through the list.
!Aldrich, Of Rhode Island, is q successful
wholesale grocer, but not a millionaire.
No, not even half millionaire He is
said to be worth a quarter of {. million.
Perhaps SO, perhaps not. Allison, of
Iowa, is charged with a quarter of
million. | hope he has it,
ALONG THE BIS.
Beck has had to face the same charge.
He is generally regarded as having dis
proved it. Beck would like to have
500, 900 that he could close his fingers
on. Berry, of Arkansas, Blackburn, of
Kentucky. and Blair, Of New Hampshire,
haven't together so, ,000-no, nor 3d.
coo. And # they had they should spend
it before the year was out. Bowen, of
Colorado, has one of those mythical
fortunes which arc credited one day to
lucky hit il mining and the next to
lucky game Of poker. Butler, Of South
Carolina, has the family plantation. or
what is left of it.
c's, D's AND Es.
Call has an orange grove or two;
Chase, OF Rhode Island, has factory.
Sometimes he is rich and sometimes he
isn't. Ike all manufacturers. Clancy, OF
New Hampshire, Is thrifty and saving,
and is worth some property, ont not
much. Cockrell, OF Missouri; Coke, OF
Texas; Colquitt, Of Georgia; Conger, Of
Michigan; Cuilom, of Illinois, and
Dawes, OF Massachusetts,, have little else
besides their salaries. Dolph, OF Oregon,
was rich until Willard failed, but since
then he has been floating on the planks
of his fortune. Edmunds has good
house here, another in Vermont, and
perhaps 100000 saved up. He lives
much more generously than people gen
eraliy suppose. And his professional in
come is not SO large rs is constantly
claimed, and cannot be for the simple
reason that he gives two-thirds Of his
time to bis public duties. Eustis, OF
Louisiana, has the remains of :. great
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